Hello/Hi/Greetings,
Let me start by pointing out that I'm a newbee regarding Piwigo.
My desire is to create a site that can be used by a specific group of users (no need for more than one such group) to share photos. In that, those users must login and create their own albums (e.g., support for sub-albums appears very desirable) to which they upload photos (e.g. likely a set of pictures from a particular photo shoot). Any of the users in that group should be able to download any of the albums/pictures (could be any album/picture on the website).
As best I can tell Piwigo may not intend to support downloading. Maybe there is some kind of Plugin that adds such capability.
Would appreciate some help from those with more knowledge/experience of/with Piwigo.
Piwigo 15.3.0 Check for upgrade
Installed on 23 July 2024, 5 months 3 weeks 2 days ago
Operating system: Linux
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Last edited by ajax (2025-01-15 17:19:54)
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Looks like I failed to mention that I do have the "Community" plugin installed and running. I think this is what allows ordinary (i.e., non-administrator) users to login and upload photos to albums that they can also create. However, while I have successfully tested for that upload capability I have not yet figured out how those users can download albums and/or photos (i.e., image files). This especially includes photos and maybe albums created by their peers (i.e., other non-administrator users).
Last edited by ajax (2025-01-16 17:59:55)
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Thanks for help identifying applicable plugin.
Yes, the Batch Downloader plugin does make download possible. However, my initial experiment found that I could not specify where the resulting archive (.zip) file would be placed on my computer. This caused me to look for some kind of settings that affect this behavior. While I did find quite a few configuration options, none were helpful for this problem. This led me to look for some documentation specific to the Batch Downloader plugin. Based on what I was able to find it looks like documentation is not something that exists for most if not all plugins.
I find both idea that download placement is predetermined as well as the complete absence of documentation for plugins somewhat surprising. Is there something I am missing.
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Without having run that plugin, typically download location is a setting in your browser. I am new to Piwigo so there may be something I'm missing - but I expect this is it.
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Ajax, I have the batch downlader plugin installed on my site and I can choose where the zip file will be saved : Firefox opens a popup window with a proposal to save it in the last folder I have used , I can choose the proposed location or change it, then click on OK. Try to modify the settings of your browser or change for an other one more easy to use.
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Sorry about taking so long to reply but it has been a busy week for me.
Yes, it does look like this was probably attributable to the browser. Thanks for calling my attention to that. This is something I simply never came to experience. My preferred browser is Firefox and it must default to asking where downloads should be located which is how I like it. However, when testing I often use multiple browsers so that I can be logged in as both administrator and ordinary user. While I seldom use Opera it is installed on the computer I use for most photo processing because it still work on Windows 7. I had to get down in the weeds but did find that there is a default setting for downloads that bypasses asking where they should be placed. When changed it works as I prefer and requests file location.
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